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		catwell on Dec 14, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Make your STDERR red Or you could just disable buffering, for instance with the unbuffer tool that comes with Expect: `./mytest \| tee out.txt # blocks of Hello. and Hi. unbuffer ./mytest \| tee out.txt # expected result`

burgerbrain on Dec 14, 2011 [–]

Without looking at it's source, what 'unbuffer' does is likely allocate a PTY for the things under it. That's how the rest of Expect works after all ;)

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